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Peter Vecsey
Peter Vecsey of the New York Post is the most prominent basketball columnist in the world. He has covered the NBA for the past 30 years, and has been an expert analyst on both network and cable television in the United States. His inside information and access to the league's top players, coaches and executives have helped earn him recognition as one of the "Most Powerful People in Sports" by The Sporting News.
For Peter Vecsey's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 12, 2004
Play of Knicks puts Isiah in better position to wheel and deal
NEW YORK -- Dealing from weakness, Isiah Thomas was able to obtain Stephon Marbury when the Knicks were sinking out of the standings because he was willing to relinquish draft picks, youth and desirable contracts.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 6, 2004
Media blames 'coach killers'
NEW YORK --Byron Scott's firing encouraged an irresistibly, hysterical deduction by the player-hating segment of the media: The NBA is a (cancerous) cluster of coach killers.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 29, 2004
Scott's sacking by Nets was no shock
NEW YORK -- For a while there, I thought the Nets' latest farce would never end.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 22, 2004
Pistons respond as Brown adjusts
NEW YORK -- Larry Brown's teams historically struggle at the outset of his rule. It takes time for the players to figure out what he wants.
MORE SPORTS / NBA REPORT
Jan 17, 2004
Wilkens not the right coach for Knicks
NEW YORK -- So, for a change, the New York Daily News was correct; Don Chaney was, indeed, replaced on the Knicks' sidelines by a former coach of the Cavaliers and Hawks who's represented by Atlanta-based Lonnie Cooper (as is Isiah Thomas) . . . except it's not Mike Fratello, it's Lenny Wilkens.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 11, 2004
Despite flaws, Wallace still a man in demand
NEW YORK -- Aside from the obvious downside of relocating communications major, Rasheed Wallace, to the media capital of the world, his acquisition by the Knicks would force the NBA's Competition Committee to reposition them in the Western Conference.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 8, 2004
Move for Marbury was a winner for New York Knicks
NEW YORK -- The answer: Burberry, Blackberry and now seats to see Marbury.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 1, 2004
Knicks hiring of Thomas doesn't necessarily spell danger for Chaney
NEW YORK -- In view of Scott Layden's still smoldering dismissal, why would any clear thinker vaguely concerned with credibility hypothesize Knicks coach Don Chaney is in immediate danger of being fired?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 18, 2003
Wallace lives up to nickname
NEW YORK -- The less Rasheed Wallace's silly soliloquy is scrutinized, the less exposure his fraudulence is afforded. To so much as deny his drivel, fine him for such tasteless thoughtlessness, much less waste a subdivision of space to refute such uneducated gibberish, is to dignify it.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 14, 2003
Suns didn't rise for Johnson like last season
NEW YORK -- The healthier Antonio McDyess (not necessarily the Knicks) gets, the more extraneous Kurt Thomas becomes, logic dictates.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 11, 2003
Hard to believe McMillan is really in trouble as coach of Sonics
NEW YORK -- If a writer can't get an easily checkable, exceptionally vital fact correct in a prickly news story markedly rampant with purportedly contentious conversation between a coach and his players and his bosses, why should we accept anything of import as being accurate?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 4, 2003
Rivers made the final call on dumping Armstrong
NEW YORK -- Four defeats A.D. (After Doc), hints and allegations continue to dribble-drive-and-dish throughout the league; the misinformed majority would like you to believe Magic GM John Gabriel undermined his undeviatingly adored coach by refusing to re-sign force field Darrell Armstrong. Not.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 20, 2003
Talk of Kobe joining Spurs just hot air
NEW YORK -- Welcome to the NBA where Jazz fans are wondering why John Stockton took so long to retire and turn over the point guard responsibilities to Carlos Arroyo.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 6, 2003
Kobe a loner who still has much to learn
NEW YORK -- As a self-trained psychoanalyst, I'm greatly tempted to explore the alcoves of Kobe Bryant's innermost thoughts regarding loneliness, ruthless words about Shaquille O'Neal and dirty deed with a stranger whose allegation will stain him forever even if found innocent (bad choice of words), I meant to say, not guilty.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 30, 2003
Hall of Famer West regrets Riley's decision to walk away from coaching
NEW YORK -- Don't look now (you're too late, anyway, the preseason is over), but the Grizzlies were the NBA's most improved Canadian outcast during the exhibition schedule, their sole setback to the champion Spurs.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 23, 2003
Mavs got best of Walker-LaFrentz swap
NEW YORK -- At first aghast, I figured Danny Ainge must be using Rick Pitino as his consigliere.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 17, 2003
Yao signing with Reebok to have huge impact on market
NEW YORK -- Never has a seven-story man, elite or otherwise, created any noteworthy noise in sneaker sales, not even when Devious Darryl Dawkins tried to get rich in a hurry by advertising a different brand on each foot.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 9, 2003
Incoming rookies James, Anthony already make an impression on Artest
NEW YORK -- Infamous for his demonic defense and alarming genuineness, Ron Artest recently evaluated the NBA's two newest compulsive scorers after confronting the incoming rookies in Magic Johnson's summer all-star game.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Sep 25, 2003
Blazers struggling to get roster in shape
NEW YORK -- The best thing about the NFL season is the NBA season is just around the gully, so over the ridge to Grandpa Stern's house we go.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Sep 14, 2003
Nets want to get rid of Mutombo
NEW YORK -- Alonzo Mourning, the newest member of the New Jersey Nets, hopes he will get the opportunity to play defense alongside Dikembe Mutombo this season on a regular basis like they did as collegians at Georgetown, but it isn't likely to happen.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.

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